3. Research and Information Fluency

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:

• a. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
• b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
• c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
• d. process data and report results.

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Strategies to guide inquiry

• Pathfinders
  • Internet Public Library Pathfinders
  • Models for Creating Pathfinders from Joyce Valenza
• Trusted online assistance
  • KidsClick!
  • Answers.com
  • Librarians Internet Index
  • About.com - Site uses experts to find, organize and present information with an emphasis on adult, consumer and general-interest topics. You can learn more about them at their Media Kit site.
  • Let Google work for you -- Google Alerts
  • Don't forget Nettrekker and UDLibSearch
• Research paper strategies
  • A Research & Writing

Evaluating information

• Kathy Schrock's Guide
• net.Tutor Evaluating Web Sites > Overview - Key Ideas from Ohio State University
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - from University of California at Berkeley
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - from Johns Hopkins University

Processing data

• Organize -- bubbl.us
• Graph --Create A **Graph**
• Data source -- International Data Base

Reporting results

• blogs
• wikis
• Google Docs
• Slideshare.com